Stability check on Antarctica reveals high risk for long-term sea-level rise
(WorldNews Environment)

The warmer it gets, the faster Antarctica loses ice—and much of it will disappear forever. Consequences for the world`s coastal cities and cultural heritage sites would be detrimental, from London to Mumbai, and from New York to Shanghai. That`s the conclusion of a team of researchers from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam University and New York`s Columbia University in their new study, published in Nature, on how much warming the Antarctic ice sheet can survive. In around 1 million hours of computation time, their unprecedentedly detailed simulations delineate where, exactly, and at which warming levels the ice would become unstable and eventually melt and drain...